“Things aren't always what they seem, are they?”
― quote from The Anybodies
“You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Fern’s eyes as “the unpleasant deformity.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Fern’s hair was another source of embarrassment for the Drudgers.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Volyova felt as if her brain consisted of a room full of precocious schoolchildren: individually bright, and—if only they would pool themselves—capable of shattering insights. But some of those schoolchildren were not paying attention; they were staring dreamily out of the window, ignoring her protestations to focus on the present, because they found their own obsessions more intellectually attractive than the dull curriculum she was intent on dispensing.”
― Alastair Reynolds, quote from Revelation Space
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder.”
― Elizabeth Moon, quote from The Speed of Dark
“And in between the disturbing innuendos, there was normally a nugget of likability. Buried deep, deep down.”
― Molly Harper, quote from Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
― P.D. James, quote from The Children of Men
“I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Brothers in Arms
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Faking ItBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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